Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew then that what I was telling him he was hearing for the first time . |
| 2 | Coton , the City goalkeeper voted the League 's No 1 by his fellow professionals , thwarted Speed and Fairclough with exceptional saves , while Wallace twice squandered the kind of opportunities which earlier this season he was accepting without a second thought . |
| 3 | By that time , Freud certainly had moved on a bit , from the earlier , perhaps rather narrow concentration on the repression and he was moving into the second er era of psycho psychoanalysis when there was an emphasis more on the total personality on the ego and its mechanisms of defence , to quote a title of a famous book by , and I think this is more the kind of thing that Freud is doing in this book , where you , you see not just the repressions in the unconscious , but the whole personality , and you understand it , in terms of its various defensive erm , structures , and the way which it carried out its repression . |
| 4 | He was goggling at the First Spiritualists like a medieval alchemist who has just raised the Devil . |
| 5 | ‘ I remember Trevor Brooking doing it for England when he was playing in the Second Division . |
| 6 | ‘ Good , good , very good ! ’ exclaimed Mr Broadhurst — he was flicking through the second book . |
| 7 | Even while he was working on the first draft of the poem , he was writing to Martin Browne about all the engagements ahead . |
| 8 | The lengthy obituaries which he earned in the British press deserve to completed now by the publication as soon as possible of his memoirs , on which he was working to the last . |